# How dare you, you shoe chucking terrorist! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 14, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157 "2008-12-14T20:56:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/21 "2008-12-14T23:45:58Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > Agreed. It’s not the performance you’d expect from a lame duck president. Badumcha! or, alternatively, \<\\> ---
**Author:** ![CircleofWillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@CircleofWillis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CircleofWillis)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/22 "2008-12-14T23:50:18Z")
oh I am sure this reporter will get what’s coming to him. He will payless ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/23 "2008-12-15T00:37:43Z")
Obviously, someone was unclear on the specifics of how a “boot to the head” attack works. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/24 "2008-12-15T00:39:40Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Nobody is going to give Bush credit for his cat-like reflexes? He dodged both those motherfuckers!! > > And people say the office of the President slows you down…pfffftt. > > Look at our POTUS with the head duck on the first shoe…man, can he dodge or what? > > 🙂 I get the distinct impression that this is not the first time in W’s life that he has had shoes thrown at him. He probably started every semester at Yale with his hair combed forward to cover up the heelprint of his dad’s penny loafer. Bush is no stranger to the hostile weejuns of the Earth. ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/25 "2008-12-15T00:41:36Z")
This is about the least worthy thread I’ve seen in the pit for a while. Could a mod move this to MPSIMS? ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/26 "2008-12-15T00:50:47Z")
> [@seodoa](#): > > This is about the least worthy thread I’ve seen in the pit for a while. Could a mod move this to MPSIMS? I shoe can! No loafer here! \ Moving thread to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Influential\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Influential\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Influential_Panda)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/27 "2008-12-15T00:52:13Z")
And then the President saw the mean brown man and thought to himself, “My, a hispanic!”, for he had seen many in his own country, and they were often quite rowdy. But the President was confused and afraid, as he often was, when the man took off his shoe and lobbed it towards his head. Who would do such a thing? “A ha”, Bush winked, “I’ve figured it out. He must have been the feared leader of the insurgency, Emiliano Zapato.” ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/28 "2008-12-15T00:57:19Z")
canvcelled ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/29 "2008-12-15T01:03:08Z")
I like this [Bloomberg story](http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aCRrAR5He4xY&refer=home) which contains both the the following statements, > [@](#): > > Bush said today’s incident was an example of free speech in a democracy. > [@](#): > > The shoe-thrower, who was in a group of journalists, was wrestled to the ground and taken away. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/30 "2008-12-15T01:05:27Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I like this [Bloomberg story](http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aCRrAR5He4xY&refer=home) which contains both the the following statements, That is a pair o’ Docs. ---
**Author:** ![Taenia\_spp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Taenia\_spp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taenia_spp)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/31 "2008-12-15T01:44:45Z")
If a mere journalist can successfully throw shoes at the president, why not someone with a grenade? Whoever cobbled together those Secret Service members for that day should be given the boot. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/32 "2008-12-15T01:58:24Z")
With all of the boots on the ground, one would question how this heel got to the sole heads of government to huck shoes around. Socks to be him, since he’ll be shoeboxed up in jail for awhile, but he’ll Payless for his meals than the Keds not in a cellblock. Kinda Sketchers if you ask me how he got in, but hey, I’m just kinda tongue-tied. Tripler “. . . can I get a whoa Bundy!?!” ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/33 "2008-12-15T02:26:53Z")
> [@Taenia\_spp](#): > > If a mere journalist can successfully throw shoes at the president, why not someone with a grenade? That’s nothing. I’ve seen literally dozens of instances where people got close enough to him to shake his hand. If a well-wisher can get that close, why not a ninja with a flamethrower? Answer: metal detectors. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/34 "2008-12-15T02:50:50Z")
I’m all tied up about this. Bush is a good soul. You really can’t judge a man until you walk a mile in his shoes. That guy is a bit of a heel. The SS was sure loafing around. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/35 "2008-12-15T02:52:23Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > With all of the boots on the ground, one would question how this heel got to the sole heads of government to huck shoes around. Socks to be him, since he’ll be shoeboxed up in jail for awhile, but he’ll Payless for his meals than the Keds not in a cellblock. Kinda Sketchers if you ask me how he got in, but hey, I’m just kinda tongue-tied. You have exceeded the federally mandated limit of bad puns in one sentence. Please toe the line in the future – it is your sole responsibility. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/36 "2008-12-15T03:01:56Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > You have exceeded the federally mandated limit of bad puns in one sentence. Please toe the line in the future – it is your sole responsibility. Hush now, little puppy. Shoe-rly you can’t lace up my speech with such insole-ts. Tripler _Now_ I have broken federal guidelines. With bad puns and 4.2 oz. in a three ounce bottle! _Shazam!_ [sub]DISCLAIMER: No, I have not been drinking. . .[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/37 "2008-12-15T03:08:05Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > That’s nothing. I’ve seen literally dozens of instances where people got close enough to him to shake his hand. If a well-wisher can get that close, why not a ninja with a flamethrower? > > Answer: metal detectors. Well, that settles the debate about who’s tougher, Wolverine or an army of ninjas, then. Cause Wolverine _totally_ kicked the metal detector’s ass in X-Men. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/38 "2008-12-15T08:26:17Z")
What I find funny is Bush does not for one second lose that stupid smirk and that look of being totally clueless about what’s going on around him. I wonder what will become of that man? I think his carreer as a journalist is over. Wheteher he will suffer more serious consequences we will have to see. On the other hand he will be the hero of many. He could write a book and bask in glory in Iran. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/39 "2008-12-15T11:28:48Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > What I find funny is Bush does not for one second lose that stupid smirk and that look of being totally clueless about what’s going on around him. > > I wonder what will become of that man? I think his carreer as a journalist is over. Wheteher he will suffer more serious consequences we will have to see. On the other hand he will be the hero of many. He could write a book and bask in glory in Iran. If they’d have landed, he could. If just one had hit its target, I bet he’d have got his weight in goats cheese, or something. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157/40 "2008-12-15T12:35:47Z")
> [@sailor](#): > > On the other hand he will be the hero of many. He could write a book and bask in glory in Iran. Iran so far away. Especially with no shoes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dare-you-you-shoe-chucking-terrorist/477157.md?page=3)